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Fox Cancels 'American Idol'
Ratings juggernaut and discoverer of Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood will stage "season-long celebratory event" in 2016

BY DANIEL KREPS May 11, 2015

After one of the most dominant runs in television history, American Idol will not return after its 15th season this January, Fox announced Monday. Host Ryan Seacrest – the only on-screen talent that has been with the show since its 2002 debut – and the current judges' table of Jennifer Lopez, Harry Connick Jr. and Keith Urban will be along for Idol's last ride.

Fox added that the singing competition series that unearthed Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson, Chris Daughtry and Adam Lambert would stage a "season-long celebratory event" in its last season alongside their search for "the final Idol superstar." Idol winners have combined for a total of 13 Grammys, led by Underwood's seven. However, the series hasn't discovered an award winner in nearly a decade.

After the emergence of Clarkson and Underwood, the show hit its ratings peak in its fifth season in 2006 with a weekly average of 31.1 million viewers. However, ratings slowly declined in subsequent years after constant shakeups at the judges' table – Paula Abdul's exit shifted the show's chemistry, as did Ellen DeGeneres' one-season cameo – and an inability to luck upon another platinum-selling star (Remember Lee DeWyze?).

The show's true decline began in 2010, though, after its main antagonist Simon Cowell departed to join rival Fox singing competition The X Factor. Although that series lasted only three seasons in the U.S., Cowell never returned to Idol. The emergence of other music competition shows like The X Factor and NBC's successful The Voice also oversaturated the market, leading to a downturn in Idol viewership.

Although Idol found some stability in recent years with their Lopez/Connick Jr./Urban panel, viewership continued to plummet, averaging a low of only 11 million viewers for their current 14th season. While that number would still make for a successful network sitcom, the costs and salaries that went into Idol were prohibitively expensive to keep the show on-air (even though, as Billboard noted, the judges took a slight salary cut to return for Season 15).

Idol's required two-nights-a-week, three-hour hold on the schedule also handcuffed Fox from adding shows that could grow viewership instead of waiting for Idol to eventually bottom out. This past year, Fox found reliable audiences with scripted programs like Empire and Gotham, which further loosened their dependence on stalwart Idol. Despite its decline in recent years, Idol will be remembered for spawning dozens of copycats in the reality TV field as well as the talented singers it helped discover.



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sheesh.

the show has been a non-factor for several years now, it seems. i haven't heard a peep from an American Idol winner in i dunno how long.

i take that back - Phillip Phillips was just here in Chicago doing a free concert during that Draft Town side-show attached to the NFL Draft Weekend. LOL

i haven't watched a full episode since whenever that Gospel-sanging Black woman won a couple seasons back. and i only watched the semi-final and final.

good riddance.

fuck you.

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and even then I didn't watch that season like I did season 2.

Truthfully I'm surprised the shit is still on the air.

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5 years would give it so much bang for the buck for a return but they it won't last much longer than Jay-Z's retirement.


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It's getting too expensive to make now, given how long it's been on the air versus the declining ratings and license revenue.

but i can see some Idol showcase/reunion events in the future featuring any of the 'stars' the show created w/a few newly-discovered talents presented by any of the judges or even former contestants.

fuck you.

I really, really like the team of Connick Urban and Lopez, Connick is a way more constructive negative voice than Cowell was. But I also recognize that there isn't much of that cutthroat industry executive attitude to it anymore, there's a little too much positivity attempting to make up for the fact that nobody on the show is an absolute superstar. I've enjoyed this season though, so it's a bit of a bummer I've only got one more in me.

I'm not sure I could keep a straight face if J-Lo told me my voice wasn't strong enough.

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so she can tell me if my voice isn't strong enough. but she can't tell me how to improve my voice.

i have no problem w/her as a judge but i couldn't deal w/her as a mentor when it comes to singing. she can help me w/my stage presentation as a general matter b/c she's an entertainer. she knows how to work an audience and all of that.

fuck you.

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Idol though had the game on lock until they brought in has been acts and gave them as much face time as the acts they had or were trying to float folks up like Nikki Manji or Keith Urban as if they got big time careers. its sad when a real talent like Harry Connick Jr or Steven Tyler gotta waste there time on that show.

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